Michaela Kolofsky

But a lot of it was guesswork.

In tests, 82% of rabbits couldn't tell the difference between Brian Blessed and a gorilla if dressed in similar clothes.

So it's that kind of stuff that you start each chapter with.

But I wanted us both to close our conversation, Chris, by asking you, did the premise of the book work for you?

Did it hold up until the very end?

I enjoyed it enormously.

I actually, I felt a bit like Chris did at the beginning.

Chris has put it really brilliantly.

I wasn't sure who it was speaking for and who it was speaking to.

And so it's been really, it reminds us how personal books are, that we see them very much through our own eyes and

as Chris has explained, his discomfort with feeling that maybe he was, you know, maybe in some other circumstance he would have been the rabbit or he was having that feeling.

I think that what it does really brilliantly is highlight the way that we still in 2020 find the other so strange and so threatening.

And it does it with a lot of joy or not joy, it does it with a lot of humour.

and a lot of puns and a lot of fantastic literary and cultural references, but it still hammers home that point, which is if we're all alive at the same time and we all want to be here, then why can't we get along and how might we get along?

And I think it does, it leaves you with enough to really go away and have a lovely long think about that.

and still have a very good chuckle.

So no, I think it's well worth picking up.

And to be fair, I don't think I've ever read anything like this, not this combination of absurdism and cultural references.

And it's also extremely pacey.

It's a really beautifully snappy kind of book and it pulls you right in.